Exxonmobil Research and Engineering Company

Victor P DePaola

Philip H Warrick

Gary Robert Kocis

Joseph W Evans

Anantha Sundaram

Jayanth Balasubramanian

George E Friedrich

Eric A Winkler

Stephen R Bradshaw

Nicholas J Booker

A decision support tool to assist decision-making in the operation of a facility. The decision support tool allows a user to perform operational programming of the facility so that the analysis of specific operational events is flexible and 'on-demand.' This is achieved by allowing the user to set scope and timeframe of the analysis according to business needs. As a result, the organization can make better-informed judgments whether to add operational activities and how to adjust the ones already formulated in the program. The decision support tool can also allow for the application of strategies to communicate intent behind the programming instructions and to improve the quality of business decisions.

Operational programming of a facility

A modeling tool for determining the operation of a production facility. A variety of different activities can be modeled, including (a) feed material selection, including quantity and timing, (b) product sales, including quantity and timing, (c) process operations, including process conditions and timing, (d) blending operations, including process conditions and timing, and/or (e) inventory management. The modeling tool may represent time using continuous-time, discrete-time, asynchronous time periods, synchronous time periods, and combinations of these various approaches.

Modeling tool for planning the operation of refineries

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Vienna, VA, United States of America

Victor P DePaola